final_thp_4thedition

Exploration of
We aim to bring the heartbeat,
something usually very internal,
into physical space using color and
motion. Focus is on the commonality
of heartbeat between humans, yet
maintaining the uniqueness of each
individual. An iPhone app will be used
to measure pulse, via the camera. Taking
one’s pulse—an often undetected and
average/unexciting aspect of daily life—
and turning it into something bigger
and colorful will provide opportunity
for self-realization. For each peak in the
pulse, an animation of a tree will grow.
The original model for the project (seen
here) was to send the signals to a halfdome
of LEDs covered by ping-pong
balls, to mirror the physicality of pulse.
Entitled “Listen to You!”, this
will essentially be a web-app
style interface scaled up to a gallery
installation. People will input their
names, heights, moods, and perhaps
get their pulses taken (with an
Arduino finger monitor), resulting
in a personalized song according to
certain algorithms. We hope to enliven
people’s self-identities by creating a
beautiful musical manifestation of their
uniqueness based on information that
reflects both their constancy of being
and their presence in a moment of time.
The installation will be a laptop with
noise-canceling headphones, to create an
isolated and personal experience.
Shape, scale, and wholeness/
halfness. For a long time, we’ve
wanted to create a unique and
immersive experience of space. It
could go outside or inside, with a 16’
diameter and an 8’ height; the frame
is made of metal pipes. The dome will
be lit with a rope light weaved into the
frame. Light and dark will play against
fabric triangles which cover about half
of the frame. Here we hope to create
an opportunity for new encounters
and exchange. The establishment of a
boundary, which marks the separation
of space into an ‘outside’ and an
‘inside’, will delineate an intentional
and immersive yet open-ended
experience.
Exploring the ideas of life, death,
destruction and rebirth. Wax is a very
malleable material that provides the means
for both creation and obliteration, with
which we can further examine how death
provides the space for new life. We have
scanned our own heads which we will then
use to make molds for the wax. We will
also use 3D-print skulls to place inside the
wax cast. To observe this destruction, we
will melt the wax faces using a rotating heat
gun. There will be six wax heads that will
each fit approximately into a 6-inch cube.
A heat gun will melt wax into the molds
which will be clear so that one can watch
them fill. Once the wax is set, the molds
will be opened and the same process will be
used to melt the newly made wax faces!
Boundaries
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